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Lamentations Chapter 1

Lamentations
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Lamentations

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The chapter opens with a lament for Jerusalem, describing the city's desolation and the people's grief after God's fierce anger. It records that God has poured out his wrath, causing the destruction of the city and the exile of its people.

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(1) How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
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Lamentations 2:1Lamentations 4:1Isaiah 14:12Jeremiah 50:23Zephaniah 2:15Revelation 18:16Revelation 18:17Lamentations 2:10Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 47:1Isaiah 47:2Isaiah 47:3

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Genesis 48:19Psalms 69:22Isaiah 14:10Jeremiah 5:27Ezekiel 36:35Luke 11:36

(2) She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 2:18Lamentations 2:19Job 7:3Psalms 6:6Psalms 77:2Psalms 77:3Psalms 77:4Psalms 77:5Psalms 77:6Jeremiah 9:1

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Isaiah 33:1Isaiah 24:16II Kings 21:14Jeremiah 3:20Psalms 38:11

(3) Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
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II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 25:11II Kings 25:21II Chronicles 36:20II Chronicles 36:21Jeremiah 39:9Jeremiah 52:15Jeremiah 52:27Jeremiah 52:28Jeremiah 52:29Jeremiah 52:30

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Ezekiel 16:53

(4) The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
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Lamentations 2:6Lamentations 2:7Lamentations 5:13Isaiah 24:4Isaiah 24:5Isaiah 24:6Jeremiah 14:2Micah 3:12Lamentations 2:9Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 10:22Jeremiah 33:10

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Revelation 21:13Isaiah 3:26Zechariah 12:10Jeremiah 12:11Ezekiel 29:12Nehemiah 13:19

(5) Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 3:46Leviticus 26:17Deuteronomy 28:43Deuteronomy 28:44Psalms 80:6Psalms 89:42Isaiah 63:18Jeremiah 12:7Micah 7:8Micah 7:9Micah 7:10

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Ezekiel 16:53Exodus 23:22

(6) And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
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II Kings 19:21Psalms 48:2Psalms 48:3Isaiah 1:21Isaiah 4:5Isaiah 12:6Zephaniah 3:14Zephaniah 3:15Zephaniah 3:16Zephaniah 3:17Lamentations 2:1Lamentations 2:2

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Luke 12:53Isaiah 19:13Psalms 84:7Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17II Kings 19:21

(7) Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
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Job 29:2Job 29:3Job 29:4Job 29:5Job 29:6Job 29:7Job 29:8Job 29:9Job 29:10Job 29:11Job 29:12Job 29:13

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Judges 5:27

(8) Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
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Lamentations 1:5Lamentations 1:20I Kings 8:46I Kings 8:47I Kings 9:7I Kings 9:9Isaiah 59:2Isaiah 59:3Isaiah 59:4Isaiah 59:5Isaiah 59:6Isaiah 59:7

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Genesis 9:23Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 18:10Leviticus 20:17

(9) Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
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Lamentations 1:17Jeremiah 2:34Jeremiah 13:27Ezekiel 24:12Ezekiel 24:13Deuteronomy 32:29Isaiah 47:7Jeremiah 5:31I Peter 4:17Lamentations 1:1Lamentations 4:1Isaiah 3:8

(10) The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
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Lamentations 1:7Isaiah 5:13Isaiah 5:14Jeremiah 15:13Jeremiah 20:5Jeremiah 52:17Jeremiah 52:18Jeremiah 52:19Jeremiah 52:20Psalms 74:4Psalms 74:5Psalms 74:6

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I Samuel 15:19Psalms 44:2Isaiah 57:9Habakkuk 3:12

(11) All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
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Lamentations 1:19Lamentations 2:12Lamentations 4:4Lamentations 4:5Lamentations 4:6Lamentations 4:7Lamentations 4:8Lamentations 4:9Lamentations 4:10Deuteronomy 28:52Deuteronomy 28:53Deuteronomy 28:54

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II Kings 16:15Zephaniah 2:3

(12) Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
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Lamentations 2:13Lamentations 4:6Lamentations 4:7Lamentations 4:8Lamentations 4:9Lamentations 4:10Lamentations 4:11Daniel 9:12Matthew 24:21Luke 21:22Luke 21:23Luke 23:28

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Genesis 3:16II Corinthians 7:10Philippians 2:27Revelation 18:7Nehemiah 2:2Zephaniah 2:2

(13) From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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Lamentations 2:3Lamentations 2:4Deuteronomy 32:21Deuteronomy 32:22Deuteronomy 32:23Deuteronomy 32:24Deuteronomy 32:25Job 30:30Psalms 22:14Psalms 31:10Psalms 102:3Psalms 102:4

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Jeremiah 8:1II Kings 1:5Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(14) The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
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Deuteronomy 28:48Proverbs 5:22Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 47:6Jeremiah 27:8Jeremiah 27:12Jeremiah 28:14Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 34:20Jeremiah 34:21Jeremiah 37:17Jeremiah 39:1

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Judges 8:21Acts 15:10Isaiah 10:27

(15) The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
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II Kings 9:33II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16II Kings 25:4II Kings 25:5II Kings 25:6II Kings 25:7Psalms 119:118Isaiah 5:5Isaiah 28:18Jeremiah 50:26

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Luke 12:53Revelation 14:20Isaiah 25:10Deuteronomy 22:6Isaiah 18:7Jeremiah 12:10

(16) For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
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Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:9Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 2:18Lamentations 3:48Lamentations 3:49Psalms 119:136Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 9:10Jeremiah 13:17Jeremiah 14:17Luke 19:41

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34Jeremiah 13:17Exodus 21:24Exodus 21:26

(17) Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
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I Kings 8:22I Kings 8:38Isaiah 1:15Jeremiah 4:31Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:9Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 1:19Lamentations 1:21Lamentations 2:1Lamentations 2:2Lamentations 2:3

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19I Chronicles 19:2Isaiah 51:3I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23

(18) The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
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Exodus 9:27Deuteronomy 32:4Judges 1:7Ezra 9:13Nehemiah 9:33Psalms 119:75Psalms 145:17Jeremiah 12:1Daniel 9:7Daniel 9:14Zephaniah 3:5Romans 2:5

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Ezekiel 16:53Deuteronomy 22:6Lamentations 2:21Matthew 10:41Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(19) I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
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Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 4:17Job 19:13Job 19:14Job 19:15Job 19:16Job 19:17Job 19:18Job 19:19Jeremiah 2:28Jeremiah 30:14Jeremiah 37:7

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II Kings 16:15Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20

(20) Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
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Lamentations 1:9Lamentations 1:11Isaiah 38:14Lamentations 2:11Job 30:27Psalms 22:14Isaiah 16:11Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 31:20Jeremiah 48:36Hosea 11:8Habakkuk 3:16

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Job 20:14

(21) They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
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Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:8Lamentations 1:11Lamentations 1:12Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 1:22Lamentations 2:15Lamentations 4:21Lamentations 4:22Psalms 35:15Psalms 38:16Psalms 137:7

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II Kings 8:12II Corinthians 1:4Exodus 15:26Psalms 138:7Nehemiah 9:27

(22) Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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Nehemiah 4:4Nehemiah 4:5Psalms 109:14Psalms 109:15Psalms 137:7Psalms 137:8Psalms 137:9Jeremiah 10:25Jeremiah 18:23Jeremiah 51:35Luke 23:31Revelation 6:10

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Jeremiah 44:9

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